Dow continues to disregard criminal court charges in India and refuses to remediate the pollution that still leaks from its factory in Bhopal.

I wonder if DuPont has property in India that could be seized if it merges with Dow. Perhaps a lien could be put on it now, to stop DuPont from selling it before the merger.

Mandatory minimum sentences are a recent aberration in US history; we could get rid of most of them.

Malicious code in a "smart" watch can tell what you are typing by measuring your arm motion.

Anything called "smart", unless all the software is free, is an attack on your freedom and privacy.

A UK local government, squeezed for funds, is planning to charge old people every time they need someone to pick them up after falling.

Most Syrian rebel fighters hold extremist views similar to PISSI, even though they are enemies of PISSI.

This shows that defeating PISSI won't eliminate Salafi oppression from Syria. (There may be no way to do that, in the short term.) However, those groups might not want to attack outside Syria; it might be possible to make peace with them.

It will be hard to make peace in a way that includes them and the secular Kurds.